Gentoo: GLSA-202301-24 Critical: CUPS Memory Overflow Vulnerability
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November 12, 2007
CUPS contains a boundary checking error that might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200711-16
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: CUPS: Memory corruption
Date: November 12, 2007
Bugs: #196736
ID: 200711-16
Synopsis
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CUPS contains a boundary checking error that might lead to the
execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX-based operating
systems.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-print/cups < 1.2.12-r2 >= 1.2.12-r2
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Alin Rad Pop (Secunia Research) discovered an off-by-one error in the
ippReadIO() function when handling Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)
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